Monthly Archives: November 2012

Fri 9th November 2012
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UDRP On CrowdSurfing.com Rejected: The Domain Holder Just Bought a Domain & Didn’t Respond - A one member panel just rejected the UDRP brought by LiveOne Group, Ltd. on the domain name CrowdSurfing.com despite the fact that Liveone had an US trademark on the term, the domain name was recently purchased and the domain holder didn’t even bother to respond to the UDRP. The complainant apparently had the opportunity to buy the domain for around $6,000 through Buydomains.com between May and July of this year. However Liveone hesitated and the domain was purchased by the current domain holder. The ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy.com To Have 2 Super Bowl Commercials Both Starting Danica Patrick - During a Go Daddy news conference today, Bob Parsons, the company’s Executive Chairman and Founder, ended speculation about whether Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick would be in this year’s Super Bowl commercial. Parsons announced Danica will be in both of Go Daddy’s two thirty-second Super Bowl ads next year. Parsons did not specify the creative content. Danica has been in more Super Bowl ads than any other celebrity in Super Bowl history. (10 commercials — all with Go Daddy) The news conference ... read more ...
 
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Priceline Buys Kayak.com For $1.8 Billion - Priceline.com bought Kayak.com for $1.8 Billion dollars today in cash and stock just four month after becoming a public company. Priceline will pay $40 a share for the company, a 29% premium to its closing price of $31.04 Thursday and 54% more than its initial public offering price in July of $26 a share. Kayak reported$224 million in revenues last year, and processed 302 million users queries for travel information in the quarter ending in September, a 31 percent jump over the same period last year. Terry ... read more ...
 
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Tarheel Take-Out guilty of retreat domain name hijacking over Takeout.com - Food delivery service guilty of abusing proceedings. When Tarheel Take-Out, LLC filed a UDRP against the domain name Takeout.com, it was a pretty good bet that it would be found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. A three member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has just turned in its decision and has indeed determined that Tarheel Take-Out is guilty of abusing the UDRP process. The panel ruled that the domain name was not similar to a mark in which ... read more ...
 
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.Co auctioning off 150+ domains on Sedo - Reserves start at $500 in .co auction on Sedo. A .co auction kicked off on Sedo Monday with a number of top keyword domain names. 164 domain names are for sale with reserve ranges from $500 to $25,000. You can participate in the auction by going to Sedo.co (that’s clever). Although the auction is billed as a .co auction for startups, the names aren’t necessarily geared to startups. Top domains include: Casinos.co Hot.co Latinos.co Chef.co Maps.co Sedo has a number ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD discussion on daub for March - Conference to provide roadmap for new TLD strategy. Momentum Consulting is organizing The Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress to take place in New York City March 11-12, 2013. The event is geared to applicants in this round as well as companies that might want to consider applying for a new top level domain in the future. The conference hopes to attract senior executives responsible for marketing, brand management, internet strategy, communications, digital ... read more ...
Thu 8th November 2012
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Bluff Blog Beats Back UDRP Challenge On Buff.com; Despite TM, Parked Page & Links To The Complainant - Original Buff, S.A. of Igualada, Spain, just lost a UDRP on the domain name Buff.com The domain holder was represented by ESQwire.com Law Firm. The domain is parked and according to the complainant has been parked for some 15 years. Also it appears from the fact presented to the panel that the  parked pages at times contained links to the complainant’s products. The three member panel in finding in favor of the domain holder (there is quite a bit of discussion in the opinion as to who the domain ... read more ...
 
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Buff.com spared by UDRP panel - Panel rules that buff.com likely registered as a dictionary keyword domain name. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled against Original Buff, S.A. in a case brought against the domain name Buff.com. The complainant sells head wear, and Buff.com has shown sponsored links related to headwear in the past. Buff argued “it is practically impossible to maintain that the Respondent’s choice of buff.com is a pure coincidence and not intentional.” The ... read more ...
 
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NextDoor.com sues owners of NextDoor.cm - NextDoor.cm owner has claimed NextDoor.com stole his business idea. Neighborhood social networking site NextDoor.com has sued the owner of NextDoor.cm — but this isn’t a simple allegation of cybersquatting. The company filed the suit (pdf) in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to put an end to what it says are baseless claims that NextDoor.com stole its business idea from defendant Raj Abhyanker. You can read some details about Abhyanker’s previous claims ... read more ...
Wed 7th November 2012
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How’s that Meet.me Sale Looking Now? Revenues $11.6 Million; Active Users Almost 4 Million in September - - MeetMe®, Inc. ( NYSE MKT : MEET ), reported earnings after the market closed today for  the third quarter ended September 30, 2012. Yes this is the same company that bought Meet.me from MostWantedDomains.com for $450,000 last year. Here are the results: Third quarter Revenue totaled $11.6 million, up 1,148% year-over-year. Third quarter Revenue represents a 30% increase over the $8.9 million of Combined Revenue, a non-GAAP measure, of Quepasa and myYearbook during the same period a year ago.   Net ... read more ...
 
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HavingTroubleVoting.com? Newsweek /Daily Beast Hand Registered This Domain Yesterday & Already Ranks in Alexa - The domain name HavingTroubleVoting.com a really nice call to action domain was hand registered yesterday by The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC. Damn that was a nice one. The site is already launched which allows people to report trouble spots for casting votes and other voting related issues. How good of a domain is it, consider that it already has an Alexa rank of 9 Million after just one day of operation. Since it was just registered yesterday its a little late for this election cycle but ... read more ...
 
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Sedo: 3 Co-Founders & The Chief Sales Officer Leaving & Simonetta Batteiger Becomes Head of Product Management - In a press release just out Sedo.com announced that three of its co-founders and the company’s chief sales officer will be leaving the company in the first quarter of 2013. Founders Ulrich Priesner, Marius Würzner and Ulrich Essmann along with Chief Sales Officer Liesbeth Mack-de Boer will depart the company. “Stepping up from within Sedo’s ranks, Dirk Ochotzki will now serve as Head of Operations, Joel Ghebaly as Head of Product Management (Traffic Monetization), and Simonetta Batteiger as ... read more ...
 
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The Government of Gabon Says No To Kim Dotcom’s Me.ga Plan - A few days ago Kim Dotcom announced his  plan for  a new version of his Megaupload site which would use the domain name Me.ga. .Ga is the country code or ccTLD for the country of Gabon. Last night the government of Gabon said it would suspend the internet domain Kim Dotcomhe had planned used for the service. According to Phys.org, Communications Minister Blaise Louembe said yesterday: Dotcom tweeted in response that the announcement showed the “reach of the US” of and media company Vivendi. “Don’t ... read more ...
 
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Dotcom přišel o doménu Me.ga. Obsadila ji pirátská skupina Omega - Je to zhruba týden, co Kim Dotcom spustil upoutávku na svůj nový web na doméně Me.ga. GA je TLD doména afrického Gabonu a ten se ústy ministra telekomunikací záhy ozval, že nedopustí, aby nástupce zrušeného Megauploadu běžel právě na jejich doméně. Dotcom později obvinil z nátlaku na africký stát mediální skupinu Vivendi, která je vlastníkem Gabon Telecom, který je zároveň správcem tamní národní domény GA.Doménu Me.ga ovládla pirátská skupina ... read more ...
 
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Matt Cutts: don’t park your domain right before rising a web site - Cutts recommends taking down a parking page about a month before launching a new site. Google web spam czar Matt Cutts just published a video in which he asks himself a question (rather than taking it from the community): should I keep a domain name parked before I launch a web site? In short, Cutts says no. He works in a reference to eNom’s backpack girl and then goes on to explain that Google has a filter to try to keep parked domain names out of its search results. This ... read more ...
 
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Inventa tries to invent the possess perspective of UDRP (but loses) - Company makes some big leaps in claiming Inventa.com domain name is cybersquatting. A World Intellectual Property Organization UDRP panel has just handed down a decision over the domain name Inventa.com. The complaint was brought by Inventa International Group. The owner of the domain is an apparently defunct U.S. technology consulting company called Inventa Technologies, Inc. Inventa Technologies registered the domain name in 1995 and set up its company. It filed ... read more ...
 
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As Obama wins, domains already snapped adult for 2016 battle - Key 2016 domain names not in politicans’ control. With Barrack Obama’s victory last night, we’re assured that a new president will enter the White House in 2016. Naturally, this year’s vice presidential candidates are likely to at least flirt with a run. It’s four years a way, but the candidates are already behind on one important marketing tool — their domain names. Because Joe Biden has been vice president already, the possibility of a 2016 run was known ... read more ...
Tue 6th November 2012
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Marchex Gets Hit With UDRP From P&G On The Domain Swash.com - Protector Gamble just filed a UDRP on the domain name Swash.com which is owned by Marchex, Inc. (MCHX). The domain Swash.com has an original registration date of 2000. I found a trademark by PG on the term Swash one dated in 2007 and one dated 2011 but there are 5 other live trademarks in the USPTO for the term Swash many which pre-date PG’s including by: Arion International B.V. Limited Liability Company Brondell, Inc Harry Major Machine Tool Company CAMP SCANDINAVIA AB CORPORATION SWEDEN The ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.95 Million - Sedo.com just released its weekly report. In all 861 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.95 million. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: jane.com at 60,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: kousen.nl at 9,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: divorce.info at 10,250 USD   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $1.18MM In Domains Led By CarTransport.com At $85K - Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,181,186 for the week ending November 4th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by CarTransport.com for $85,400 followed by GoPure.com at $19,000. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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The Domain King Rick Schwartz Launches JointVentures.com - In a press release issued today Rick Schwartz announced the launch of JointVentures.com which allows “CEOs and marketing executives of small, medium and large companies with growth ambitions to get a to get a million dollar website domain name” without the high price tag or capital layout of category defining domain names frequently reported sold in today’s secondary market. ” Its actually a great idea.  We have several of these types of deals in the works and also have had success with ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com Joins The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) - Escrow.com, has just become a member of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA). Escrow.com is the world’s leading Internet escrow company and in  announcing it was the newest member of the ICA said that it “continues to take a stance on protecting Internet commerce and the domain name industry and marketplace by recently supporting leading Internet trade organizations such as the Internet Commerce Association (ICA). ” “The ICA is made up of responsible businesses and individuals who have ... read more ...
 
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Ad-Tech kicks off in New York tomorrow - Conference going on as planned in NYC. I’m currently at 30,000 feet en route to Ad-Tech in New York City. Despite early concerns that the conference would be canceled due to Superstorm Sandy, the event is going on as planned. It will be interesting to see how the attendance is in light of last week’s events and a storm coming in this week. I will be at booth 1818 promoting Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads, powered by Media.net. A couple domain name related companies ... read more ...
 
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Top Domain Name news stories from October - Domain auctions, lawsuits, and more. Here are the top five news stories on Domain Name Wire from last month, ranked by page views. 1. TRAFFIC domain auction was the most exciting in years – some people disagree, but most of them didn’t read the full article. Nor were they there. 2. ICM registry ups ante in online monopoly fight – The .xxx registry files counterclaims against Manwin. 3. 29 end user domain sales – one of my weekly end user sales reports attracted ... read more ...
Mon 5th November 2012
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TechCrunch Covers Offersby.Me & Yes They Own The .Com - TechCrunch just covered another .Me site, this time its Offersby.Me which is a group buying site. Interestingly the company also owns the .com version of the domain name, but is sticking with the branding of the site using the .Me extension. According to TechCrunch: “”Adam Goldberg did quite a bit of research before soft-launching OffersBy.me last spring. The ex-Oracle, ex-Google entrepreneur and ClearSaleing co-founder knows a thing or two about ad analytics and has taken this experience with ... read more ...